''Marriages Forbidden'' (german: Heiraten verboten) is a 1957 West German

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Heinz Paul Heinz Paul (13 August 1893 – 14 March 1983) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. He was married to the actress Hella Moja. Selected filmography Director * ''The Street of Forgetting'' (1923) * ''The Dice Game of Life'' (1925) ...

and starring

Ingeborg Cornelius Ingeborg Cornelius (born 1930) is an Austrian stage and film actress.Goble p.173 She appeared in a number of heimatfilm during the 1950s, having been discovered by the producer Peter Ostermayr. Selected filmography * ''The Violin Maker of Mitten ...

Helga Franck Helga Franck (1933–February 1963) was a German stage and film actress.Körner p.368 Having appeared in a number of 1950s film productions, including the 1957 heimatfilm ''Marriages Forbidden'', her career was cut short when she accidentally f ...

and

Siegfried Breuer Siegfried Breuer (24 June 1906 – 1 February 1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor and occasional film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Vienna, Siegried was the son of Hans Breuer (1868 or 1870–1929), who was an opera s ...

.Höfig p.343 It was one of many

heimatfilm ' (, German for "homeland-films"; German singular: ') were films of a genre popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. ''Heimat'' can be translated as "home" (in the geographic sense), "hometown" or "homela ...

made during the decade. The film's sets were designed by the art directors

Hans Ledersteger Hans Ledersteger (1898–1971) was an Austrian art director who worked for many years in the German film industry. While mainly employed in Germany, he occasionally also worked in other countries such as Italy and his native Austria including on ...

and

Ernst Richter Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (24 October 18089 April 1879), was a German musical theorist and composer, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that in ...

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Willi Höfig. ''Der deutsche Heimatfilm 1947–1960''. 1973.

External links

* 1957 films 1957 comedy films German comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Heinz Paul Films based on Austrian novels 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub